{"id":33141,"date":"2012-06-20T02:15:40","date_gmt":"2012-06-20T02:15:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/cen_david_goodhew-startling_academic_research_shows_widespread_church_grow\/"},"modified":"2012-06-20T02:15:40","modified_gmt":"2012-06-20T02:15:40","slug":"cen_david_goodhew-startling_academic_research_shows_widespread_church_grow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=33141","title":{"rendered":"(CEN) David Goodhew&#8211;Startling academic research shows widespread Church growth in Britain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An international team of leading researchers, based at Cranmer Hall, Durham, have just published a study entitled Church Growth in Britain from 1980 to the Present. Here are just a few of the extraordinary statistics that have been unearthed:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;      There are 500,000 Christians in black majority churches in Britain. Sixty years ago there were hardly any<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;      At least 5,000 new churches have been started in Britain since 1980 \u201d\u201c and this is an undercount. The true figure is probably higher<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;      There are one million Christians in Britain from black, Asian and other minority ethnic communities<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;      The adult membership of the Anglican Diocese of London has risen by over 70 per cent since 1990.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/religiousintelligence.org\/churchnewspaper\/?p=26119\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An international team of leading researchers, based at Cranmer Hall, Durham, have just published a study entitled Church Growth in Britain from 1980 to the Present. Here are just a few of the extraordinary statistics that have been unearthed: &#8211;<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=33141\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,39,50,74,389,199,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-anglican-provinces","category-church-of-england-coe","category-england-uk","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33141\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}